I’d like to announce the release of the first episode of the MythTVCast. The show will be semi-weekly with each episode about one hour in length. We’ll be covering all facets of MythTV: picking hardware components, picking a MythTV related Linux distribution, setting up peripherals, setting up and using MythTV plugins, exporting recordings to DVDs […]
As part of my MythTV setup I have a QAM capture card for recording unencrypted cable stations. RCN, my current cable provider had a total of 19 HD channels completely open. Mind you these weren’t movie channels but stations most people consider basic cable (CBS, PBS, Discovery, HGTV, Food Network). Literally overnight I could not […]
Every Easter I bring the wife and kids to visit my parents house on Staten Island for a nice family dinner. The house I grew up in borders a 1 square mile wetlands area that’s owned by NYC. On one side of the street there’s about a 10 foot slope that has some trees growing […]
I haven’t posted in a while and just have some odds and ends to talk about. First, why is it that ATI’s Linux drivers still suck? I constantly hear about how terrible the closed ATI drivers are for Linux and how many issues people have with them. In a perfect world all device drivers would […]